Category Archives: writing

EYES OF A LIFETIME: A BAYOU POEM

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Farewell to April and another National Poetry Month. And Farewell to Lucius Abel.  That last day with him, his Mama relives every day. *     *      * All is dark. Just one thing she sees – her son’s … Continue reading →

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HALF-HUMANS/HALF-BEASTS, A POEM

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh April is National Poetry Month.  We at Fiction House Publishing celebrate all types of poetry. From Deep in the Bayou, comes this warning from Turt, our fin-clawed hero in Tales of the Fiction House: Turt’s thoughts are … Continue reading →

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A BAYOU GATOR’S REMINISCENCE – A LIMERICK

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In Honor of National Poetry Month Just one of the 1,001 Tales residing for all eternity in the Fiction House. The butterflies’ nemesis, the gators. *     *     * See purty buttahfly – see dem flits. Onst our … Continue reading →

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AN APRIL 15 A-TTAX ON SYNTAX

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh      We’re in the Ides of April, National Poetry Month.      Here’s a little celebratory prose and verse,      To lighten the burden of the tax day curse.      It’s the 1890s. Fiction House’s hired hand, Efraim … Continue reading →

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THE BUTTERFLIES, A POEM

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh (In honor of National Poetry Month)   I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction.  Typhoon tears me from my parents.  I alone survive.  I become an orphan foundling, taken in by new loving … Continue reading →

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The Fiction House Presents Larkish verse for April, National Poetry Month

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Raji Singh

ANTIGONISH by Hughes Means, 1899   Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away…   When I came home last night at three, The man … Continue reading →

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THE TALE OF AN EASTER LILY AND A DESERT RESURRECTION IN POETRY AND PROSE

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh April is National Poetry Month. For humans it is a time for Easter, Passover, and various human (‘two-leg’) celebrations. Plant, bird, butterfly, and creature (the ‘four-legs’) celebrate, too. They call it Transformation: The Time of the Great … Continue reading →

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APRIL FUELS POETRY

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh The gods of words have decreed it: April is National Poetry Month. Here at the Fiction House we enjoy telling tales. Some are poignant. Others are just plain tall. We like mixing in a little verse with … Continue reading →

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CHARLES DARWIN MEETS TURT (‘naked and loving it’) Repost

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh (editor, archivist, archeo-apologist, Fiction House Publishing) The upcoming passage comes from the galley proofs of; THE BEAGLE HAS LANDED by Charles Darwin.  Fiction House Publishing, 1838.  Memos I am discovering in the Fiction House archives indicate the … Continue reading →

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY TALE– RRROSE HEATHER, A DAUGHTER OF OL’ IRE-LAND

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh Just one of the 1,001 Tales residing for all eternity in the Fiction House. (James is a four-year-old foundling.  His ill fate causes him to loose his memory.  Turt is a long-lived sort of giant turtle, ferrying … Continue reading →

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